Sub-national and district management:
The management context: MDGs, PRSPs, SWAPs
Poverty Reduction Strategies
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PRSPs Their Significance for Health: Second Synthesis Report
2004, WHO/HDP/PRSP/04.1
Poverty-health links; health systems; water, sanitation and nutrition; poverty targeting; cross sectoral strategies; links with Millennium Development Goals; monitoring
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Human Rights, Health and Poverty Reduction Strategies
2005, WHO/ETH/HDP/05.1
What are human rights? Who are the poor? How does poverty affect health? Respect, protect and fulfil the right to health; transparency and accountability
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Linking Policies and Budgets: Implementing Medium Term Expenditure Frameworks In A PRSPs Context
Paolo de Renzio and Samantha Smith, 2005, Overseas Development Institute
Linking policy and budget processes; characteristics of MTEFs; MTEF-PRSP annual cycle; priority setting and resource allocation; fiscal stability and sustainability; budget execution and performance
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WHO Database on health in PRSPs
This online serchable database provides an analysis of the health component of each country’s PRSP from a poverty perspective. In addition, it summarizes what PRSPs say about the health challenges in a particular country, the proposed health strategies to meet those challenges, and the mechanism to monitor progress. -
ELDIS topic page: PRSPs
DFID Resource Centre